Quotes About Tactics

He is wise who tries everything before arms.

This is a bit like bribing the other team's best players to leave the pitch as soon as you start the match! Not much of a game!)

and strategy is the essential intellectual tool for doing so.

WARRIORS ARE NEVER AGREEABLE PARTICIPANTS. SHOULD WARRIORS CHOOSE TO INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN SOMETHING IT IS ONLY BECAUSE IT SUITS THEIR STRATEGY TO DO SO.

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence

There is a homely adage which runs, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

speak softly and carry a big stick

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Environmentalists, by and large, are very deeply invested in tactics that have worked to their satisfaction over the last thirty years, namely scaring and shaming people.... I am questioning whether you can go on doing that indefinitely ... [pushing] that same fear-guilt button over and over again. As psychologists will tell you, when a client comes in with an addiction, they are already ashamed. You don't shame them further.

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?

Truly a Thinking Man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such a one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap him, and hoodwink and handcuff him.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Negative politics have always been around.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

I'm trying to win more points at the net, not just come to the net more frequently.